Owners Manual

Table 1. Features available on the front of the system
Item Panels and slots Icon Description
1 Left control panel N/A Contains status LED indicators, system health, system ID, and
indicator codes.
2 Hard drives N/A Enable you to install drives that are supported on your system.
For more information about drives, see the Support Matrix at
Dell.com/XCSeriesmanuals.
3 Right control panel N/A Contains the power button, VGA port, iDRAC Direct micro-USB
port and two USB 2.0 ports.
4 Information tag N/A The Information Tag is a slide-out label panel that contains
system information such as Service Tag, NIC, MAC address, and
so on. If you have opted for secure default access to iDRAC,
the Information tag also contains the iDRAC secure default
password.
Left control panel view
Figure 3. Left control panel view
Table 2. Left control panel features
Item Indicator, button, or
connector
Icon Description
1 Status LED indicators N/A Indicate the status of the system. For more information, see
Status LED indicators.
2 System health and
system ID indicator
Indicates the system health. For more information, see System
health and system ID indicator codes.
3 iDRAC Quick Sync
2 wireless indicator
(optional)
Indicate if the iDRAC Quick Sync 2 wireless option is activated.
The Quick Sync 2 feature allows management of the system
using mobile devices. This feature aggregates hardware/
firmware inventory and various system level diagnostic/error
information that can be used in troubleshooting the system. You
can access system inventory, Dell Lifecycle Controller logs or
system logs, system health status, and also configure iDRAC,
BIOS, and networking parameters. You can also launch Virtual
Network Computing (VNC) viewer and virtual Kernel based
Virtual Machine (KVM), on a supported mobile device. For more
information, see the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller
User's Guide at Dell.com/idracmanuals.
8 Overview